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- THANKS.RAY Copyright 1992,93 Raymond Hill
- All rights reserved.
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- It is strictly forbidden to modify this file.
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- January 15, 1993.
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- My experiences in the shareware world
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- Twice before I tried the shareware market. My first experience, with
- Joute, brought me absolutely nothing. My mistake had probably to do
- with providing a fully functional version of Joute. Users were not
- required to register with the author. In my naivete, I believed in the
- good will of Atari users.
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- The second time around, with Rayoid, only three users, at the time
- of this writing, have been honest enough to register. The Rayoid
- version presently available on BBSes does not allow saving of scores,
- personal profile, etc. But the game itself is fully playable. And I
- paid a lot of attention to details that would seem trivial or which
- you may never notice.
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- As Rayoid was nearing completion, work on TitEd had already begun.
- Here again, committed to quality in the smallest details, I spent many
- long hours designing and refining TitEd. Unfortunately, experience has
- taught me that it is necessary to take steps to ensure that my efforts
- do not remain fruitless. That's why TitEd's SAVE functions have been
- disabled.
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- Why be dissatisfied with Atari's decisions and support if you, the
- users, don't even bother supporting authors who feed you software for
- your machine?
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- At this time, another project is about to be finalized, and should
- be released within the next two or three weeks. But I must look at the
- obvious: in the last months, I've spent long days developing quality
- software for your Atari. It is therefore clear to me that, if my work
- goes unrewarded, I'll have no motivation in further producing software
- of interest for BBSes. It is not my intent to threaten or lecture, but
- to simply state the facts. Would you do otherwise in my place?
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- The author wishes to thank...
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- The following for the support they provided:
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- Guy Le Bleu (For editing and translating the docs,
- and for his many suggestions)
- Henri Tremblay
- Patrick Robert
- John Shortess (GEnie: SCHERZO. Encouraged me to complete TitEd)
- Ed Krimen (GEnie: E.KRIMEN. Encouraged me to complete TitEd)
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- The following for their honesty:
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- Alain Gagnier, Dorval, Québec, Canada (Rayoid)
- Michael Burkley, Niagara Falls, New-York, USA (Rayoid)
- Joseph C. P. Alvarez, Fordyce, Nebraska, USA (Rayoid)
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- And because a day is always sunny when she is here:
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- Micheline.
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